Nice piece on the developments in the European Parliament, by @nvondarza.bsky.social and Sophia Russack ⬇️

Højrefløjen fortsætter sine angreb på beskyttelsen af natur, miljø, klima og arbeidstagerrettigheder. I denne uge var det beskyttelsen mod afskovning, som var på dagsordenen. Linje er klar: Udsæt, udhul og til sidst afskaf beskyttelsen. enhedslisten.eu/nyheder/eu-u...

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Great offer for all the academically-inclined EU-geeks 📚🤓🇪🇺out there ⬇️ And honestly, what better use of your Christmas holidays🎄, than contributing to the scholarly body of knowledge about EU's controversial Omnibus use? 🤔

Don't copy Denmark's🇩🇰 hardline migration policy, Danish @left.eu MEP @perclausen.bsky.social warns the UK🇬🇧, in this interview with Scotland's🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The National ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2563162...

Nu siger selv #Sudan's ambassadør til EU det højt: EU-landes våbeneksport til hovedrige #UAE, ender op i hænderne på RSF, der står bag mord, voldtægter og etnisk udrensning i Sudan. Hvorfor tøver EU med det logiske skridt - at stoppe våbensalg til UAE? www.politico.eu/article/suda...

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This thread, on today's Omnibus vote ⬇️

When industry says “simplify” they mean “deregulate”. ‘Deregulation’ means less privacy, more consumer harms, less competition, and fewer safeguards. The tech bros will get even richer and Europeans will pay the price. Let’s not allow Big Tech and its authoritarian allies to tell the EU what to do.

If today’s vote on Omnibus I passes with EPP+ECR+Patriots support, it establishes the operational majority for the rest of von der Leyen's term This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...

This, on the Chemical Omnibus

This,on why we shouldn't trust AI for verification of, whether or not photos (or other) are real or not ⬇️

What happens when @left.eu MEPs from 🇩🇰 & 🇸🇪 confronts actual monsters inside the European Parliament? It can, it turns out, become very interesting - at least if the MEPs in question include @perclausen.bsky.social and Hanna Gedin from @vansterpartiet.se ⬇️ enhedslisten.eu/nyheder/conf...

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A reminder when reading stories like this, that Belgium's current PM used to be the mayor of Antwerp... where he clearly didn't have the best track record in handling this issue www.politico.eu/article/antw...

Every day, Trump is becoming more and more like a post-Soviet, Central Asian dictator - but with worse hair and a more fragile ego. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm still trying to imagine just how much fun they had at the @euractiv.com editorial meeting, when they come up with the headline Tinker, tailor, soldier, Politico? 😁 newsletter.euractiv.com/mail/21d4134...

Tell me you are a thin skinned snowflake❄️, without telling me. Trump ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This is so 2025

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Having @buerokratiemonster.bsky.social in the European Parliament TV studio with @left.eu MEPs ... makes this not your average plenary day :-)

💥“Oil may come from the East, but freedom always comes from the West.” One of Viktor Orbán’s best lines from his anti-Kremlin phase (2007). Then he met Vladimir Putin one-on-one in 2009—and everything changed. These days, his inner circle profits heavily from Russian oil deals.

Soup of the Week, episode 9: How Viktor Orbán Built the EU’s First Dictatorship youtu.be/lytK-oJPZLo

Woke = en moderne forkortning af “Menneskerettighederne” som blev defineret og nedskrevet i 1789 i Frankrig. Basis for det moderne europæiske demokrati - og for EU-organisationen, for FN-samarbejdet - UNICEF og andre større globale organisationer. Helt basalt. Nothing new here!

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense". Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

Probably not one of the "first to"-records he has hoped to set. What puzzles me, is that it has not generated more focus outside of France on the responsibility of the party in this - and the need of a reckoning.

And to think, this only comes three years later than it should have...

Mens Trump og hans venner råber op om Antifa, ser vi historier som denne her ⬇️ - om vold og had fra grupper associeret med det yderste højre.

The EU Commission has published guidance for operators relating to refined products obtained from Russian crude oil 👇   finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/oil-imports_en

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

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Bravo! MEPs urge ‪EU Parliament President Metsola to rebuke @ec.europa.eu for: 1️⃣ Pushing a Morocco deal before Parliament's consent 2️⃣ Ignoring ECJ rulings 3️⃣ Rewarding Morocco’s illegal occupation of #WesternSahara The EU can’t defend #RuleOfLaw while breaking it. enhedslisten.eu/nyheder/meps...

It is Tuesday, it is strike time - and right now, protesters are blocking Brussels' Avenue de la Couronne.

Reappointing Lecornu?😮 Macron is by now becomming almost Monty Pythonesque... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Shhhh! Don't let the EPP know. Or else Weber's meat police might show up...

These figures certainly makes you wonder why someone keeps pouring money into GB News. Almost as if the true purpose might not be to have a commercially viable channel...

Tell who your friends are...

Even Manfred Weber admits that the Veggie Burger ban is absolute nonsense: "Consumers are not stupid", he said - and "this is not a priority".

07-10-1937 MADAGASCAR: Despite the legalization of the unions, workers organizing the Departmental Union of Workers and Employees of Madagascar are immediately brought before the colonialist courts.

The EP is gathered Strasbourg this week - so what could be better than joining the @left.eu press briefing? 💪 ... and here, you can pick up good arguments for showing a lack of confidence in the leadership of the European Commission🇪🇺?

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

Welcome to US politics anno 2025.

I wonder how current EPP leader will react to Merkel's outrageous statements. Will they distance themselves, or? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It is scary how many in the West are quickly adopting a Trumpian approach. This labelling of anything you disagree with as un-whatever-country is a clear step in the very wrong direction.

Who has the many speeches where Ursula swore simplification was not deregulation? Was not last time just a month ago for SotUE? Dropping the pretence, then, I see.

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Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Stephen Miller more and more seems like a movie villain.